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26 Swords, spears, and darts only bounce off when they hit him.
    These weapons don’t hurt him at all!
27 He breaks iron as easily as straw.
    He breaks bronze like rotten wood.
28 Arrows don’t make him run away.
    Rocks thrown at him seem as light as chaff.
29 When a wood club hits him, it feels to him like a piece of straw.
    He laughs when anyone throws a spear at him.
30 The skin on his belly is like sharp pieces of broken pottery.
    He leaves tracks in the mud like a threshing board.
31 He stirs up the water like a boiling pot.
    He makes it bubble like a pot of boiling oil.
32 When he swims, he leaves a sparkling path behind him.
    He stirs up the water and makes it white with foam.
33 No animal on earth is like him.
    He is an animal made without fear.
34 He looks down on the proudest of creatures.
    He is king over all the wild animals.”

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26 The sword that reaches it has no effect,
    nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.(A)
27 Iron it treats like straw(B)
    and bronze like rotten wood.
28 Arrows do not make it flee;(C)
    slingstones are like chaff to it.
29 A club seems to it but a piece of straw;(D)
    it laughs(E) at the rattling of the lance.
30 Its undersides are jagged potsherds,
    leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.(F)
31 It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron(G)
    and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.(H)
32 It leaves a glistening wake behind it;
    one would think the deep had white hair.
33 Nothing on earth is its equal(I)
    a creature without fear.
34 It looks down on all that are haughty;(J)
    it is king over all that are proud.(K)

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